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CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 BROOK STREET 1932-1/6/20 (South East side) 19/05/95 No.24 The Catholic Club (Formerly Listed as: BROOK STREET Ye Olde Bowling Green Hotel)

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Hotel, later public house, now licensed club. 1913-14. By John Davies and Sons. For Greenall Whitley and Co. English garden wall bond red-brown brick with yellow sandstone dressings and timber frame with plaster panels; pebbledash; graded Westmorland green slate roof. Frontages in Vernacular Revival style, the domestic rear in Queen Anne style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; two 3-window wings at right angles, one to Brook Street, the other to Milton Street deeply recessed to contain a corner entrance. Ground floor of brick dressed with yellow sandstone; mullioned and transomed leaded casements and canted bay windows to each wing; double part-glazed panelled oak doors in Roman Doric porch with entablature and upper storey of stone-dressed brick between 2 projecting plinthed chimneys with lozenge flues. The first floor has ornate small framing with jetties on herms and quadrant and curved herringbone braces; mullioned leaded casements and oriels; well-handled informally composed roofs. The rear is pebbledashed; a one-storey rear wing provides balcony to first floor with shaped splat balusters; small-pane windows standing proud of wall-face; 2 canted bays; modillion cornices and eaves; 5 plinthed chimneys with lozenge flues INTERIOR not inspected, but externally visible rooms appear to have had some features removed. This item is the most substantial and well-composed example of John Davies's Vernacular Revival public houses in Chester. (Chester City Council and Committees: Improvement Committee Minutes: 5/2/1913).

Listing NGR: SJ4087266739

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